John Dewey and Daoist Thought
(August 2019)
Experiments in Intra-Cultural Philosophy, Volume One Jim Behuniak - Author
Beyond the Troubled Water of Shifei
(June 2019)
From Disputation to Walking-Two-Roads in the Zhuangzi Lin Ma - Author Jaap van Brakel - Author
Offers the first focused study of the shifei debates of the Warring States period in ancient China and challenges the imposition of Western conceptual categories onto these debates.
In recent decades, a growing concern in studies in Chinese intellectual history is that Chinese classics have been forced into systems of classification prevalent in Western philosophy and thus imperceptibly transformed into examples that echo Wester...(Read More)
In Pursuit of the Great Peace
(June 2019)
Han Dynasty Classicism and the Making of Early Medieval Literati Culture Zhao Lu - Author
Examines the Great Peace (taiping), one of the first utopian visions in Chinese history, and its impact on literati lives in Han China.
Through an examination of the Great Peace (taiping), one of the first utopian visions in Chinese history, Zhao Lu describes the transformation of literati culture that occurred during the Han Dynasty. Driven by anxiety over losing the mandate of Heaven, the imperial court encouraged clas...(Read More)
Through an examination of archaeologically recovered texts from China’s northwestern border regions, argues for widespread interaction with texts in the Han period.
This book examines ancient written materials from China’s northwestern border regions to offer fresh insights into the role of text in shaping society and culture during the Han period (206/2 BCE–220 CE). Left behind by military installations, these...(Read More)
Explores the cosmological and metaphysical thought in the Zhuangzi from the perspective of nothingness.
Zhuangzi and the Becoming of Nothingness offers a radical rereading of the Daoist classic Zhuangzi by bringing to light the role of nothingness in grounding the cosmological and metaphysical aspects of its thought. Through a careful analysis of the text and its appended commentaries, David Chai reveals no...(Read More)
Heaven Is Empty
(December 2018)
A Cross-Cultural Approach to "Religion" and Empire in Ancient China Filippo Marsili - Author
Offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires.
Heaven Is Empty offers a new comparative perspective on the role of the sacred in the formation of China’s early empires (221 BCE–9 CE) and shows how the unification of the Central States was possible without a unitary and universalistic conception of religion. The cohesive function of the ancient Mediterrane...(Read More)
Dao and Sign in History
(November 2018)
Daoist Arche-Semiotics in Ancient and Medieval China Daniel Fried - Author
Provides a new perspective on important linguistic issues in philosophical and religious Daoism through the comparative lens of twentieth-century European philosophies of language.
From its earliest origins in the Dao De Jing, Daoism has been known as a movement that is skeptical of the ability of language to fully express the truth. While many scholars have compared the earliest works of Daoism to language-skeptical move...(Read More)
